Public meetings about Schuylkill County’s ongoing property tax reassessment process have concluded.

The last of four public meetings was held Thursday at Blue Mountain High School in Orwigsburg.

Tim Barr of Vision Government Services Inc., the firm the county hired to do the reassessment, said 74 people attended a meeting at North Schuylkill High School, 24 at Pine Grove High School, and 34 at the Tamaqua Middle School. The fourth meeting was to be held Wednesday night at the D.H.H. Lengel School in Pottsville,

Barr said at each session, he made a one-hour presentation, and answered questions for at least 30 minutes.

In Tamaqua, Barr said he continued to answer questions in the parking lot until 10 p.m.

He answered another question at the meeting – about allegations of sexual misconduct made against him at last week’s commissioners’ meeting.

Commissioner Chairman Larry Padora said as soon as the allegations were made, the commissioners contacted Vision.

“No claims were found against me,” Barr said. “Vision did an investigation in my office, which is monitored by me and the project manager. It is done for security. It is recorded after hours with no audio.”

In other business, the commissioners approved the sale of three parcels of land in Schuylkill Township, to Mark Drum for $83,000, Viking Holdings, 2021 LLC, for $16,500, and Nichole and Jonathan E. Tewksbury, $15,126.

The county had given the land with stipulations with what the township could do with it. When township officials determined they could not do anything with it, they turned it back over to the county. The commissioners had it appraised before selling it, and set minimum bids.

The commissioners approved an addendum to a contract between the county and attorney Shelby Grabowski Hostetter. An annual payment of $22,000 shall be paid for legal services and an additional $5,000 temporarily on an annual basis for the additional workload due to the open full-time position in the district attorney’s office.

Another action to give bonuses to full-time assistant district attorneys for doing enlarged workloads due to short staffing was tabled due to a request from President Judge Jacqueline Russell.

District Attorney Mike O’Pake said the money for the bonuses was coming from money already budgeted for unfilled positions in his office.

At the request of the Election Bureau, the commissioners voted to hire 14 election rovers to start immediately for the purpose of office preparation and logistics for the May 20 primary at the rate of $12 per hour and 70 cents per mile traveled on Election Day to assigned polling sites where needed. Four sub-contractors were also hired.

Also hired were 11 drivers to deliver Election Day supplies and equipment, seven sub-contractors as machine delivery drivers, four resolution board members for Election Night, up to eight people for the computing board at $75 per day, and six more sub-contractors.

The commissioners also voted to advertise for bids for an Americans with Disabilities Act project to build walking paths at the Zion Grove Park in West Penn Township. Bids will be done via PennBid and must be submitted by 9 a.m. on Wednesday, April 23.